Many individuals, institutions, and funding sources have contributed to our research on Swartzia. For encouragement and guidance, we are especially grateful to Rupert Barneby (deceased), Douglas Daly, Enrique Forero, Gwilym Lewis, James Miller, Scott Mori, Peter Raven, Mick Richardson, Barbara Schaal, Wayt Thomas, and Ana Maria Tozzi.
We thank the following individuals, herbaria, and institutions for logistical support of field studies: Hector Aldana, Diego Angulo (CICY), Stephen Beck (LPB), Dairon Cárdenas (COAH), Germán Carnevali (CICY), André Carvalho (deceased, CEPEC), Kou-fang Chung (NTUF), Alvaro Cogollo (JUAM), Indiana Coronado (HULE), Rodrigo Duno (CICY), Kristine Erskine (BRG), Sophie Gonzales (CAY), Jean-Jacques de Granville (CAY), Alvaro Idarraga (HUA), Luís Fernando Jaramillo, Jewell Liddell (BRG), Noberto López (JUAM), AnaLu MacVean (UVAL), Victor Medina (HUT), Demetria Mondragon (OAX), Marie Frangoise Prevost (CAY), Lauren Raz (COL), Ricardo Rivera García (OAX), Eric Rodriguez (HUT), Ricardo Rueda (HULE), Juan Ruiz (AMAZ), Mario Saldias (USZ), Lupita Sánchez-Torke, Daniel Santa Maria (INB), Regina da Silva Martens (IAN), Mike Nee (NY), B. Simón Pérez, Raquel Thomas (FDG), Wayt Thomas (NY), Nelson Zamora (INB), Freddy Zenteno (LPB), Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciónes Cientificas SINCHI–Colombia, Parque Nacional Santa Rosa staff–Costa Rica, Organization for Tropical Studies–Costa Rica, Smithsonian Institution-Biodiversity of the Guianas Program, The Nature Conservancy Climate Change Project, and the Wildlife Conservation Society-Bolivia.
We are also grateful to the curators and staff of the following herbaria for giving us generous access to their collections: A, AGUAT, ALBC, B. BBS, BIGUA, BM, BR, BRG, CEPEC, CR, EAP, F, G, HUEFS, HULE, HVIES, IAN, INB, INPA, K, L, M, MEXU, MG, MO, NY, OAX, P, PORT, R, RB, S, U, UEC, UEFS, US, USM, VEN, and XAL.
Lab work has been aided especially by Claire Addis, James Beck, Yu-Chung-Chiang, Kuo-fang Chung, and Anthony Geneva. B. Torke thanks former project volunteer Norka de Lima for her assistance with data entry and other aspects of his research. Many individuals have generously contributed photos and plant material, most prolifically among them: Paul Berry, Xavier Cornejo, Douglas Daly, Robin Foster, Lúcia Lohmann, Paul Maas, Scott Mori, Mike Nee, Marie Frangoise Prevost, Karen Redden, Wayt Thomas, and the Igapó Guide Team (http://ecologia.ib.usp.br/guiaigapo/equipe.html), which generously supplied the banner photo of Swartzia macrocarpa.
Our continuing effort to produce a comprehensive phylogenetic monograph of Swartzia is generously funded by the National Science Foundation (DEB-0918498). Funding for B. Torke’s past work on Swartzia was provided by the National Science Foundation (DEB-03009162), the Deep Time Project, the Botanical Society of America, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, the Rupert Barneby Award of the New York Botanical Garden, a grant from the Mellon Foundation to the Missouri Botanical Garden, and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Academy of Natural Sciences. We are grateful to the Missouri Botanical Garden, Washington University, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, and the New York Botanical Garden for previous and ongoing institutional support and access to their research facilities.
Development of this website been aided immeasurably by the skill, dedication, and generosity of the staff of the Herbarium and Library of the New York Botanical Garden. B. Torke is particularly grateful to Barbara Theirs, Director, and Jackie Kallunki, Associate Director of the Herbarium, for their commitment to making specimen data available online and to Melissa Tulig, Bioinformatics Manager, for helping him to design and launch the Swartzia Pages. This website is very much modeled on Scott Mori’s Lecythidaceae Pages (https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/projects/lp).